Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-03-17
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
HOW 1T WAS OBSERVED In THIS
CITY.
Literary and Musical Exercises In Hal.
ley Theater-General ROberts's Ex.
cellent OratiOn-Ete.

lion, Broadford, and ketchum did not
come, but wheh the hour fixed for the
beginning of the literary exercises
arrived Haley Theatre was literally
packed with ladies, children and gem
tlemen.
John Ward, President Of the Day,
called the assemblage to order, and
delivered brief bat stirring opening
address, after which the following
program was carried out:
"St. Patrick's Days" Delius's Or
chestra.
Comic song-"Paddy's the Boys"
George Pearce.
Recitation - "Shamus O'Brien;
Harry Butler.
Song-"A Nation Once Again."
John Ward.
Oration-Gen. Geo. H. Roberts.
Song -"Killarney;" Miss Katie
Moore.
The HALEY School Band enlivened
the exercises by playing several airs
very creditably.
THE GRAFTON.
Following is the substance of Gen.
eral Roberts's Grafton, which lack OF
time prevents US from publishing in
full:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: We are
met to-day to do honor to one whose
birth, deeds, and death are shrouded
in the mists of the Evolutionary past
With the gods who are said to have
disported on the Olympian campus
with William Tell, who slew the
tyrant Gessler for compelling him to
perform the apple trick nolens volens
with the shadowy mysterious and
unknowa of every age and cline,
must be -elegsted St. Patrick, the
patron saint Of the Emerald Isle.
St. Patrick was said to have been
born in the year 37a, by some, al
what is now the modern city of Bou.
lognc; by others, near Fitzpatrick
Scotland, III the year 373. Men neg
lected in their lives, but with imper
ishable renown clustering around
their death-how true it is Of them
as Of the great Grecian poet
Seven cities claim Homer dead,
Through which the living Homer begged his bread
At the age of Is he was carried
rcaptive to Ireland by band of ma
auders, but at the end of six m onths
escaped to Scotland. Carried off ,
second time he resolved to become
missionary to the Irish, was conse
Grated bishop in 432, preached tn
Gospel with such matchless fervor an(
eloquence, and with such extraordi
nary effect that he received the credi
of converting the Irish to Christian
iay. He taught the doctrine of The
Trinity and illustrated it by the sham
rock, which became the national EN-
blem of Ireland. Churches, cloister.
for both sexes, and numerous monastl.
institutions were founded by him
which Aourished during the succeeding
three centuries. He was the Wen
dell Phillips and Lloyd Garrison o
his time, and with terrible denuncia
ton and power inveighed against thu
institution of human slavery.
He is said to have driven th'
snakes from Ireland-from whenc,
they have emigrated bad luck t.
them!) oftentimes to the boots of hi
countrymen and those of every othe
land.
t This Legendary tale gave rise, afte
Burke's terrible arraignment of War
rem Hastings, to the following cpl
gram:
| soft have we wondered that On Irish ground
No poisonous reptile has e'er yet been found.
] Revealed the secret stands, of Natures work
She saved her venom to create Burke"
, From the canonized sanity dead O
antiquity let us this day pause awhil
as we throw our immortelles and for
get-me-nots upon the graves of tn
= sainted dead of your day and time
the unnumbered Winklereids VIII
3 gathered to their breasts the points @
= opposing spears to make way for th
/ avenging feet behind; the heroes c
J. everyday life, uncanonized by churel
sleeping in humble graves, but chez
: ished in the hearts of their country
men-humble heroes who died tia
others might live; that Ireland migt
take her place among the nations {
!. the earth, and Emmet's epitaph {
!, last be written. O'Brien-Larki
!, and Allen-who were executed ,
: Manchester, November %, 1867, b.